Books and the internet: The first 50 pages of the newest book from Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, has been leaked by the hacker Guccifer. According to The Guardian, Guccifer broke into the author's email and tweeted screenshots of the pages from Killing Monica from Bushnell's personal Twitter.

American book dream: Dexter star Michael C. Hall will adapt Matthew Specktor's novel American Dream Machine as a TV series for Showtime, GalleyCat reports. The book is set in the '60s and is about a Jewish boy from New York who becomes a powerful Hollywood agent.

The real 'Inferno': According to Italian news outlet Sorrisi e Canzoni, the 11 people who translated Dan Brown's latest Robert Langdon novel, Inferno, had to deal with some hell of their own, working for two months in near-isolation at a guarded underground compound in Milan.

Hype for 'Ender's Game': The trailer for the movie adaptation of Orson Scott Card's 1985 dystopian best seller Ender's Game was released yesterday and has more than 1 million views on YouTube. The movie is out Nov. 1. What do you think?